Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 3091 - The Scott Adams School 02⧸10⧸26

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00:00:43.580 Good morning, Stephen.

00:00:46.840 Oh, there you go.

00:00:48.380 Good luck, Peter.

00:00:49.540 Oh, Sergei, hi.

00:00:51.300 Good morning, everybody.

00:00:52.280 Okay, let's check and see if YouTube's coming in.

00:01:01.540 Good morning, YouTube.

00:01:04.260 Good morning, locals.

00:01:08.420 Rumble?

00:01:09.780 Hello, hello.

00:01:10.780 You're here in the flesh, Dr. Von Hardy.

00:01:14.420 That's exciting.

00:01:15.680 You have your pants on today.

00:01:18.240 Let's see.

00:01:19.420 Okay, everyone's getting ready, coming in.

00:01:22.220 We heard you needed another second to come in.

00:01:25.120 We don't want you to miss the sip with Scott, of course.

00:01:28.180 We have Joel Pollack with us today.

00:01:31.080 As Tim Dillon says, friend of the show, Barry Weiss.

00:01:34.940 He'll say something like that.

00:01:35.940 Friend of the show, Joel Pollack.

00:01:37.620 One of our favorite, favorite people.

00:01:41.400 And, oh, you miss Mike Burt.

00:01:43.780 Maybe he'll be in.

00:01:44.640 I think he's working in a mine, if you can believe that.

00:01:47.920 So welcome, you guys.

00:01:49.020 My name is Erica.

00:01:50.220 I'm here with Marcella and Sergio and one of my most favorite humans in the world, Joel Pollack.

00:01:57.900 And we just want to remind you that Coffee with Scott Adams exists on its own.

00:02:03.960 You have thousands of hours of Scott and his lessons and his wisdom.

00:02:08.960 It's all still there for you.

00:02:11.880 Scott's amazing, and we could never replace him.

00:02:15.680 We are here, as he wished, as the Scott Adams School.

00:02:19.540 It's a place for us to come every morning, Monday through Friday.

00:02:22.700 We have a simultaneous sip together.

00:02:25.380 We chat about whatever topics we think is fun, whether it's AI or it's news or current events or a reframe from Scott's Reframe Your Brain book.

00:02:37.200 And so we're just here in good faith, good fun, keeping Scott's legacy going the best way we can.

00:02:45.660 So let's remember that, and how about we all get ready for what you're here for.

00:02:53.060 And here's Scott.

00:02:58.580 Good morning, everybody.

00:03:00.680 Welcome to the Golden Age.

00:03:02.320 Yeah, it's the Golden Age.

00:03:05.120 And I'll even put it on my microphone so that the YouTube people can hear me better.

00:03:08.800 Good morning, everyone.

00:03:39.280 Fill with your favorite liquid Iliac.

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00:03:46.840 The dopamine to the damn thing makes everything better. 0.99

00:03:50.620 It's called the Simultaneous Sip. 0.99

00:03:53.000 And it's going to happen now.

00:03:54.260 Go.

00:04:01.200 You guys, that is going to be a fun show, Scott said.

00:04:05.620 And if you want to watch that one later, it is from, oh, my God, my thing keeps rotating.

00:04:12.780 Sorry, guys.

00:04:13.580 It's episode number 1499E.

00:04:20.940 Okay.

00:04:21.420 And that's four years ago.

00:04:22.460 So I'd like to welcome you guys today.

00:04:25.900 We're going to talk about some news.

00:04:27.220 We only have Joel for the first half of the show.

00:04:29.600 So we're going to ask Joel to get right to it.

00:04:32.080 He has just launched the California Post last week.

00:04:36.660 So let's go with the news, Joel.

00:04:39.740 We're going to let you start off.

00:04:42.480 Good morning.

00:04:43.260 Well, there's some very interesting news today.

00:04:45.540 And the news is always surprising.

00:04:48.300 I was going to talk about some aspects of Scott's biography that perhaps I'll leave for next time.

00:04:55.980 But if you want to prepare for that discussion, if you haven't read it yet, please read God's Debris by Scott Adams.

00:05:04.320 And if you can, try to get hold of the trilogy and read the two sequels.

00:05:09.880 The third one is rather short.

00:05:11.480 And the second one is The Religion War. 0.72

00:05:14.600 Very, very interesting book.

00:05:16.740 And I will tease a future discussion about that by referring to the red and black plaid blanket that you can see over there behind our wonderful host.

00:05:32.700 And it has a very important significance, which I don't think many viewers realized or recognized.

00:05:39.200 And it's referenced in God's Debris.

00:05:43.120 So little bits of the Scott Adams code, if you will, peering out from some of his earlier writings.

00:05:50.400 I think it's really worth discussing.

00:05:52.600 But let's talk about the news.

00:05:54.200 And I had a Scott Adams moment, which I'll explain shortly when looking at the news today.

00:06:00.900 The Jeffrey Epstein saga continues.

00:06:03.240 And there's a lot of news about Jeffrey Epstein.

00:06:05.000 One of the pieces of news is that Ro Khanna and Thomas Massey, Democrat and Republican, were given access to the unredacted Epstein files yesterday.

00:06:18.260 They were allowed to review them.

00:06:19.480 And Ro Khanna was one of Scott's favorite members of Congress, not necessarily because he supported him, but because Ro Khanna is a Bernie Sanders type left wing Democrat, Democratic socialist who represents Silicon Valley and who's very smart and yet often says really crazy things.

00:06:41.540 So Scott appreciated some of his smart insights and his skills, his talent stack, if you will, while also making fun of, for example, his recent support for the billionaire tax, which Scott thought was crazy.

00:06:55.860 He also liked Thomas Massey without having to agree with everything Thomas Massey said or did, because Thomas Massey understands economics and would often take a rational approach to public policy issues.

00:07:10.960 Thomas is also independent, and he doesn't shy away from criticizing President Trump, which sometimes gets on President Trump's nerves.

00:07:19.380 Scott always liked people like that.

00:07:20.700 So the two of them saw the unredacted Epstein files.

00:07:25.680 My comment on that was, OK, so what do we know?

00:07:28.920 And they came out and said, well, we saw the names of six men who were tied to Epstein, but we can't tell you who they are.

00:07:36.740 So Scott's theory on the Epstein files was that you would never know the full truth.

00:07:42.100 And I just thought it was funny that these guys saw the names in the files and then came out and said, we can't tell you who they are.

00:07:48.100 The two of the most independent members of Congress still came out and said, we can't tell you.

00:07:53.660 Now, why can't they tell you?

00:07:54.960 Well, we don't really know.

00:07:56.580 But the simplest reason is that, as they said, we want the truth to come out on its own and we don't want to impugn people or start dragging people through the mud and that kind of thing.

00:08:08.440 Well, that's the reason the basic reason most of these files weren't released in the first place.

00:08:13.720 There are a lot of people mentioned in the files who had nothing to do with any of Epstein's crimes, who might have emailed him or asked him for money or whatever.

00:08:21.740 There's one person.

00:08:23.100 My favorite case of mistaken identity in the files is Tony Hawk, the skateboarder, who we did a story about at the Post.

00:08:30.760 He has been married four times and he was mentioned in the Epstein files because a woman who was a victim of Jeffrey Epstein said she remembered his wedding on the island.

00:08:41.760 The problem was he never got married on the island.

00:08:44.140 He did get married on an island.

00:08:46.780 He got married in Fiji, but he did not get married on Epstein's island.

00:08:51.820 The problem, and this is where the mistaken identity comes in, aside from being misidentified by this victim, he had a photographer at one of his weddings named Mark Epstein.

00:09:03.600 And Mark Epstein is also the same name as the brother of Jeffrey Epstein.

00:09:07.840 Oh, my God.

00:09:08.560 So if you were looking to kind of reinforce your idea that Tony Hawk, the skateboarding pioneer, had hung out with Jeffrey Epstein, well, that was your proof.

00:09:16.380 And you could find it all over the newswires because Mark Epstein had uploaded his photographs to Getty Images.

00:09:23.020 But as Tony Hawk pointed out, it's not the same Mark Epstein.

00:09:27.080 Scott used to call this code reuse.

00:09:28.900 You know, you kind of use the same names over and over again, almost as a wink from the simulation that we're living in a simulation.

00:09:36.140 So one of the reasons these files have been protected for so long or kept under wraps is to protect people who might be completely innocent.

00:09:46.780 And it's not the only case of mistaken identity.

00:09:49.040 There was another famous one, which is not really worth going into right now.

00:09:52.600 But there are some people who are guilty and who are having to deal with some very poor judgment decisions made with their association with Epstein.

00:10:01.400 But there are some people who are not.

00:10:03.120 Anyway, I just thought it was funny that these two members of Congress who you would think would come out and blow the whole story wide open, came out and said, we can't tell you everything we saw.

00:10:13.660 So anyway, that's not even the biggest story about the Epstein files today.

00:10:18.580 The biggest story is that one of the files has a 302 from the FBI.

00:10:26.540 302 is the form that they use for interviews of people who've come to them with information.

00:10:33.120 Or interviews of potential witnesses or even targets.

00:10:38.300 And there's a 302 from 2019, six years ago, which is, I believe, when Epstein was taken back into custody, where someone the FBI was interviewing said that they got a call from Donald Trump.

00:10:52.780 He called the police.

00:10:53.580 So this was a police officer.

00:10:54.640 They received a call a decade and a half before, in 2006.

00:11:00.000 Trump called the police as soon as he heard that Epstein was under investigation.

00:11:04.560 And he said that Jeffrey Epstein was a bad guy, that he had been seen around younger women, that Trump had left as soon as he got wind of it, that he had kicked him out of the Mar-a-Lago club.

00:11:17.960 And he said the FBI should focus on Epstein's associate, Maxwell, whom he described as evil.

00:11:24.560 So this has gone super viral, this story, because it does seem to prove not only did Donald Trump not participate in Epstein's crimes, but he led the way in hoping to have Epstein investigated and telling the FBI and the police that Epstein needed to be investigated.

00:11:46.640 So I had a couple of comments on that earlier today.

00:11:50.440 My initial comment was probably like that of many people watching this show, which was to say, well, that ends the Democrats' interest in Jeffrey Epstein, because the whole point of turning this scandal from a scandal about the Clintons into a supposed scandal about Trump was to simply flip it on its head and project and say, oh, well, there must be something bad about Trump in there,

00:12:15.140 because we know they were friends 20 years ago, so Trump might have been, I mean, I get this all the time in my responses from trolls on social media, Trump's a pedophile, Trump's been, you know, none of that is true, but they're trying to associate him with Jeffrey Epstein.

00:12:30.880 And it's an association that is very rhetorically effective, and Scott would say it's a good persuasion technique, even if there's no truth to it at all.

00:12:39.000 And you can argue maybe the Trump Department of Justice mishandled it by saying they were releasing Epstein files when they called a bunch of conservative social media influencers, and they said, come on over, we're going to give you the full files.

00:12:53.700 And the influencers came, and they held up big binders, and of course, the full files were still behind closed doors and locked filing cabinets.

00:13:03.640 But anyway, I thought, okay, well, this kind of ends it.

00:13:07.080 I mean, you won't hear much from the Democrats anymore about the Epstein files, because now they exonerate Trump.

00:13:13.080 Well, then I thought about it a little bit more.

00:13:15.700 So I read our article in the Post.

00:13:18.240 I think it was the California Post or the New York Post, one or the other.

00:13:22.480 And it talked about the original source for this report.

00:13:27.720 So news organizations often do this.

00:13:30.380 We will write news stories based on a story that was first reported elsewhere.

00:13:34.240 We report it in our own way and with our own platform.

00:13:38.280 And they linked back to the original source for this story about what was in the Epstein files about Trump from the Miami Herald.

00:13:44.720 So I went to the Miami Herald.

00:13:46.780 The Miami Herald told the story, and they included all the same facts that Trump had called the police,

00:13:50.960 and they had heard that Epstein was a bad guy and so forth.

00:13:54.680 But the main idea of the story was very different.

00:13:59.400 The main idea of the story was that the fact that Trump called the police and said that he had known about Jeffrey Epstein and his proclivity for young teenage girls,

00:14:11.000 that proved, according to the Miami Herald, that Trump had lied to reporters in 2019 when he said that he didn't know about anything Jeffrey Epstein did.

00:14:21.660 So reporters asked, were you aware of Jeffrey Epstein's crimes?

00:14:24.900 And Trump said, no, I never heard about it.

00:14:26.460 I don't know anything about it.

00:14:28.500 You can imagine Trump knowing about it at one point and then forgetting about it or knowing about it but not wanting to tell reporters about it.

00:14:37.340 But either way, we now have what Scott used to call two movies on one screen.

00:14:44.460 So we have this fact.

00:14:46.380 It's a document, basically.

00:14:47.640 It's the FBI interview with Donald Trump or with someone who talked to Donald Trump,

00:14:52.800 and that person reports that Donald Trump had told them about Jeffrey Epstein and tried to get the police involved in 2006.

00:14:59.400 So that nobody can dispute.

00:15:00.860 By the way, there's also still no evidence of any wrongdoing involving Trump at all.

00:15:06.920 In fact, this new piece of evidence suggests the opposite, that if anything, Trump was trying to do the right thing.

00:15:13.480 But it's two movies on one screen.

00:15:15.640 For conservatives, it means that Trump is a hero of the Jeffrey Epstein story.

00:15:20.140 And for liberals, it means that Trump lied about what he knew about Jeffrey Epstein.

00:15:24.220 Therefore, you have to keep digging.

00:15:25.380 So if you thought this was going to be over, which I did for a brief moment, I think you're mistaken because we have two movies on one screen.

00:15:33.760 And again, the facts don't matter.

00:15:36.080 What are the facts?

00:15:37.240 The facts are that Donald Trump was never associated with anything bad about Epstein, that he kicked Epstein out of his club when Epstein was misbehaving.

00:15:47.680 And now we know that he also reported Epstein to the police.

00:15:50.400 Now, you can argue if you're on the left, well, Trump only did that because maybe he was afraid of things that would come out about him or that he knew about what Epstein was doing and he didn't do anything about it earlier.

00:16:00.500 OK.

00:16:01.200 But Scott's one of the only people who picked up a phone and called the police at a very early stage.

00:16:07.420 So Trump, Trump.

00:16:08.660 Sorry.

00:16:08.920 Yes, Trump.

00:16:10.540 I heard myself say that as well.

00:16:12.160 So it's two movies in one screen.

00:16:16.260 And it's one of the things that makes it very frustrating when you're trying to talk to people on the other side or even just watching a supposedly neutral news outlet like CNN, which is that they seem unaware that there's another movie happening.

00:16:36.020 And I think conservatives are a little bit more aware because people on the left are more vocal about their views.

00:16:42.800 They feel less afraid to share their views and our media tend to reflect their views.

00:16:47.460 So you can't really escape their views.

00:16:49.460 And so I think we're a little bit more familiar with what goes on.

00:16:53.160 But it's not like conservatives don't have our own bubbles.

00:16:56.180 And let me just close and we'll open it to questions by talking about the Super Bowl.

00:16:59.800 OK, so the Super Bowl was a pretty boring game.

00:17:03.040 I watched all of it and, you know, interesting from a football perspective in some ways, the Seahawks played incredibly well.

00:17:11.680 New England did it all right, but their quarterback just couldn't crack the Seahawks defense.

00:17:16.660 And that's how it is sometimes.

00:17:17.540 And, you know, they'll be back.

00:17:19.760 But the halftime show, Bad Bunny.

00:17:23.040 I really was not that interested in his halftime show because of his political views, his open opposition to the president.

00:17:30.080 Again, I don't know why entertainers think that we care.

00:17:34.320 And I don't know why the NFL brings people on who consistently dislike the president.

00:17:40.780 You find very few examples of the opposite.

00:17:43.120 But OK, Bad Bunny. 0.98

00:17:45.280 So was it a good halftime show?

00:17:46.940 Again, two movies in one screen.

00:17:49.140 Was it a good show?

00:17:51.680 Yes, it was a good show.

00:17:53.780 I would have watched that show.

00:17:55.680 I like salsa dancing.

00:17:57.900 I like beautiful movies.

00:17:59.720 I disagree.

00:18:01.320 Bad Bunny.

00:18:02.380 Let me just make the point.

00:18:03.380 Yeah.

00:18:03.620 OK.

00:18:04.440 I disagree.

00:18:05.100 It was a good show.

00:18:06.820 Was it a good halftime show?

00:18:09.200 No, it was not a good halftime show.

00:18:12.020 And all you have to know about the halftime show is go back.

00:18:15.700 I actually did this on Saturday night.

00:18:17.740 Go back and watch the best halftime shows and see what made a really good Super Bowl halftime show.

00:18:24.160 Super Bowl halftime shows, they don't have to be rock and roll.

00:18:26.940 There was a really good one in L.A. a few years ago that was rap.

00:18:30.860 But basically, a Super Bowl halftime show is an arena performance.

00:18:35.840 The worst one I think we had seen before Bad Bunny was with the weekend when he walked through that fun house of mirrors.

00:18:41.340 You know, whenever they make it really small, it's bad.

00:18:45.220 And that was the mistake they made with Bad Bunny.

00:18:47.320 It was entertaining, but it wasn't right for the Super Bowl.

00:18:49.900 It was basically a small performance with a camera following him through all this grass and kind of recreating a sugarcane field in Puerto Rico.

00:18:58.040 It's not clear what the Puerto Rican connection is to football at all.

00:19:01.820 Do they play football in Puerto Rico?

00:19:03.200 I mean, Puerto Rico is a baseball place.

00:19:04.940 Do they play football?

00:19:05.660 We don't know.

00:19:06.160 Maybe there's some good Puerto Rican players.

00:19:08.040 Okay.

00:19:08.220 But nobody in the NFL really knew this guy's music.

00:19:12.520 I mean, there were these funny videos beforehand asking players what their favorite Bad Bunny song was.

00:19:16.460 They couldn't name any.

00:19:17.900 So this was a good show.

00:19:19.940 It was not a good Super Bowl halftime show.

00:19:22.560 And maybe if you didn't like the content of the show, I understand.

00:19:24.640 Some people don't like the scantily clad dancers and sexual content.

00:19:29.320 You know, I'm here for the fun.

00:19:30.580 But basically, I didn't think it was a good halftime show.

00:19:33.880 I also watched the Charlie Kirk Talking Point USA.

00:19:36.800 Talk about two movies in one screen.

00:19:38.560 Although really, there was two movies, two screens.

00:19:40.920 So I watched the Charlie Kirk one, TPUSA.

00:19:44.560 And that one looked like a halftime show.

00:19:46.520 It looked more like a traditional show with performers and bands and everything like that.

00:19:51.160 I think that, first of all, they did a good job to stage it.

00:19:53.560 I mean, you've got to give them credit for doing that.

00:19:55.620 But I didn't really enjoy it.

00:20:00.660 And the reason I didn't enjoy it was, even though I like country music, I don't know that much about it.

00:20:07.400 So it was like showing me Bad Bunny, who I also didn't know very much about.

00:20:13.020 Or I actually tried listening to some of Bad Bunny's songs beforehand, and I couldn't get into any of them.

00:20:18.360 I like country music.

00:20:19.380 I have been to country music shows, but I don't know enough to listen and say, hey, I love this.

00:20:24.320 This is great.

00:20:24.880 This is familiar.

00:20:26.340 And I think what a Super Bowl halftime show does is it gives you something familiar.

00:20:30.100 All of the artists who've had great halftime shows have been familiar.

00:20:33.800 They've played their hits.

00:20:34.820 I mean, the greatest ever was, by consensus, was the Prince halftime show in 2007.

00:20:41.020 And, you know, some of the other runners-up that they often list, Michael Jackson, 1993.

00:20:45.700 I remember watching that one on TV.

00:20:47.440 And my personal number two would be the Bruno Mars show in 2014, where, you know, his music

00:20:56.680 is great.

00:20:57.320 And that wasn't sort of a throwback, but he brought on the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

00:21:00.260 And even though there was a big scandal the next day because it turned out that Flea, the bass player, had basically faked his bass playing.

00:21:07.520 He had a track going instead of the actual bass.

00:21:09.700 I think because it was cold outside or there was some excuse why he didn't actually play the bass.

00:21:14.420 But it didn't matter because if you watch a show with the Red Hot Chili Peppers in it, it's always going to be fun.

00:21:18.420 So, I thought both shows kind of lacked the nostalgia and grandiosity of a great Super Bowl halftime show.

00:21:29.160 But, again, two movies and one screen. 0.96

00:21:32.860 So, people who didn't like Talking Point or Turning Point USA said, oh, it's just, you know, it's garbage. 0.96

00:21:40.340 We prefer Bad Bunny. 0.90

00:21:41.760 And people who do like it and like the political message say, hey, great job.

00:21:45.160 Awesome show.

00:21:45.720 I loved it.

00:21:46.420 So, we're all watching it.

00:21:47.780 And both sides, in a sense, can claim victory because the real achievement in both cases was they put on the show at all.

00:21:54.040 I mean, for people who like Bad Bunny, it was like, oh, we're diverse.

00:21:56.860 We do it in Spanish.

00:21:57.880 It's great.

00:21:59.100 And, you know, we love it for that reason.

00:22:01.600 And in TPUSA, the attitude was, hey, we did this alternative.

00:22:05.420 They got huge numbers.

00:22:06.680 I mean, millions and millions of people, which means they can do an even better job next year.

00:22:10.600 So, everybody should be happy because everybody won something.

00:22:14.140 But it feels like everybody's unhappy because the other side had their show.

00:22:18.680 So, where's the middle?

00:22:21.240 Where's the middle?

00:22:22.040 Again, the Libra in me comes out.

00:22:23.960 Like, there's something in the middle where I don't like country and I don't like Bad Bunny.

00:22:29.700 But what's the middle?

00:22:30.500 Yeah.

00:22:30.860 Yeah.

00:22:31.160 Yeah.

00:22:31.300 So, the middle.

00:22:32.020 Here's the middle.

00:22:32.680 And then I'll be quiet for a few minutes.

00:22:34.780 The middle is rock and roll.

00:22:35.940 I mean, part of me is like, whatever happened to rock and roll?

00:22:38.820 I mean, I love country.

00:22:40.000 I like rap sometimes.

00:22:41.840 I like some Spanish music.

00:22:43.460 Okay.

00:22:43.880 I have eclectic tastes.

00:22:45.920 But, you know, I was on the way back here with my cup of coffee from the coffee shop down

00:22:50.220 the street.

00:22:50.840 And I just felt, for whatever reason, like listening to the Black Crows.

00:22:54.140 Have they ever done a Super Bowl halftime show?

00:22:55.840 I don't know.

00:22:56.160 I saw them do a show last year in a big arena and they were incredible.

00:22:59.980 Whatever happened to some good old rock and roll?

00:23:02.520 You know, and I know that that makes me kind of old.

00:23:05.900 I didn't think rock and roll would be like old, but.

00:23:09.120 It's American.

00:23:10.480 Yeah.

00:23:11.060 Yeah.

00:23:11.380 I feel like that was, that's, if you had to name one thing that was missing from both

00:23:14.720 shows, it was just good old fashioned rock and roll.

00:23:16.800 Although I did like the Jimi Hendrix style Star Spangled Banner at the start of the TPUSA

00:23:21.220 show.

00:23:21.580 But anyway.

00:23:22.440 Okay.

00:23:22.640 I've said enough.

00:23:23.200 Let me hear some feedback and we can have some back and forth.

00:23:26.160 You know, my feedback to the Bad Bunny thing is being that I speak Spanish.

00:23:34.700 I find it terrible that there are so many great artists in Latin America and here we

00:23:44.660 have Bad Bunny performing.

00:23:46.880 Like it just, I felt like it, it pushed this agenda that like, that's who we are.

00:23:53.940 We are just like this rotating, like dancing, humping, other men kind of dance.

00:24:05.420 And that's not what I liked at all because I know there's so many other artists that could

00:24:10.620 have, if you wanted to have Latin America represented there, you could have chosen so many, you could

00:24:17.480 have chosen rock.

00:24:18.840 Spanish rock is huge.

00:24:20.480 Um, you could have chosen other bands, but I mean, to be honest, it was, it was a really

00:24:27.080 Bad Bunny show as well.

00:24:29.300 I know his music and even for Bad Bunny, he was bad.

00:24:34.040 Um, I know his Instagram, he deleted all of his Instagram.

00:24:37.900 Uh, I don't know what that was about.

00:24:39.880 Um, Ricky Martin, I even found Ricky Martin better than Bad Bunny in that show and he had

00:24:48.820 somebody get married.

00:24:50.680 Yeah.

00:24:51.300 From California.

00:24:52.160 It's the big news in California that somebody from California actually got married in the

00:24:55.620 middle of the show.

00:24:57.240 Were they illegal here or something?

00:25:00.080 So I heard some rumors that the wife was, uh, illegally here.

00:25:05.500 Let me, let me look that up while we're here, I'm going to look it up, but I mean, I, I don't

00:25:11.560 get me wrong.

00:25:12.260 I like some of the Bad Bunny songs.

00:25:15.820 I'm sorry.

00:25:16.780 I apologized to everybody, but the show itself, like having this grass and having this agenda

00:25:24.160 of like, let me look like I'm a worker, I'm a communist agenda, sort of like, it just,

00:25:33.460 I couldn't handle it because it, one, it doesn't show how great Latin American artists are.

00:25:40.960 Um, but I do agree with you.

00:25:42.800 Prince was probably one of the best halftime shows ever.

00:25:47.180 Um, but you know, very few people are like him.

00:25:50.800 The other thing I wanted to say in regards to the TP USA halftime show.

00:25:56.320 Um, I mean, it was for Charlie and to me it, it made, you know, I'm not so into country,

00:26:06.580 but I love the fact that, um, that they brought on a different sense.

00:26:14.920 They brought out America, they brought on, um, flags, very patriotic, love, love the show,

00:26:23.640 kid rock, praising Jesus.

00:26:25.340 Like nobody ever praises Jesus ever.

00:26:28.540 Um, just having the guts to put it on and doing it.

00:26:32.660 That was great.

00:26:33.700 Um, I think 25 million social media views, 10 million views live, something like that was

00:26:41.260 the, the, obviously the ratings for Nielsen for the Superbowl itself was much higher.

00:26:47.260 Um, but I found it, uh, I, I, I, yeah, rock is needed.

00:26:52.640 So, so I agree.

00:26:54.120 Can I respond to that just quickly, just with a couple of notes.

00:26:56.760 So you reminded me of something, which is that this was supposed to be a groundbreaking

00:27:02.520 performance for a Latin American artist and that kind of thing.

00:27:05.620 Uh, Gloria Estefan has played the Superbowl twice, twice.

00:27:09.180 You know, it's like, but she's anti-communist, don't you know?

00:27:14.740 Oh yeah.

00:27:15.300 So, you know, it doesn't count.

00:27:16.680 Right.

00:27:16.940 Right.

00:27:17.300 So, um, by the way, she's incredible.

00:27:19.660 I mean, I, I'm a Shakira and JLo.

00:27:22.340 Oh yeah.

00:27:22.860 Yeah.

00:27:23.140 Yeah.

00:27:23.540 You know, um, Brianna Barbados.

00:27:28.120 Exactly.

00:27:28.660 And, and Rihanna's show is also considered one of the greatest ever, but again, it's because

00:27:32.540 you give people a show.

00:27:33.720 It's not, you know, someone, my favorite Instagram post about the Superbowl was someone put a video

00:27:39.160 up that they had shot from inside the stadium where you couldn't actually see the show because

00:27:43.240 of all the grass.

00:27:44.180 Horrible.

00:27:46.220 Horrible.

00:27:46.980 Yes.

00:27:47.520 The grass was the craziest thing.

00:27:49.620 Like really?

00:27:50.460 You're going to put on this show with all this grass?

00:27:53.560 Like you couldn't even, cause I saw that shot and they had the grass going up and the person

00:28:00.040 was trying to see, they paid like thousands of dollars to be there.

00:28:03.660 And like, they were trying to see it and you couldn't see the dancers because the green

00:28:08.920 was Sergio.

00:28:09.980 I want to know what Sergio thinks.

00:28:12.020 Yeah.

00:28:12.220 Sergio, give us your take.

00:28:14.900 You're on mute, but like on the thing.

00:28:23.460 Sergio's nemesis is the mute button.

00:28:26.140 It is insane.

00:28:28.160 Okay.

00:28:28.440 Thank you.

00:28:29.060 Yo, I agree with you that, well, I don't like, I didn't watch any of them either because

00:28:35.600 Scott Adams told me, taught us that music is drugs.

00:28:40.340 Okay.

00:28:40.840 So I stopped listening to own music that is just out of my control, you know?

00:28:47.400 So it's like going to a party and like, Hey, take this, you know?

00:28:50.600 No, I want to buy my own, control my drugs.

00:28:54.140 And, um, the music is like that too.

00:28:56.580 It has to be under control and, and, and, and all sports come with a lot of music.

00:29:00.560 If you notice, right.

00:29:01.380 Every sports, if you're watching, it comes with all this music and that's why I don't

00:29:06.280 watch it.

00:29:06.600 So, but I did try to watch, um, a little bit of Bad Bunny and I didn't know who he was

00:29:10.940 or anything.

00:29:12.120 Sure.

00:29:13.280 No, seriously.

00:29:14.200 I mean, I, I prove it to you.

00:29:15.740 You said something about it.

00:29:16.940 You tried to make a joke about it.

00:29:18.420 Then I was like, I don't know who Novia is.

00:29:20.120 I was like, why is, why is, why is Jay-Z in control of this?

00:29:27.480 I don't understand.

00:29:28.640 Jay-Z picks the acts.

00:29:30.780 But the thing is that, uh, with Bad Bunny, what, all you're doing is just making everything

00:29:35.640 look worse, right?

00:29:36.600 It's just not, it didn't help the cause of anybody.

00:29:40.120 Uh, but I did like somebody made a, an English version of it.

00:29:44.220 I don't know if you saw it, uh, of the song.

00:29:46.480 And that was hilarious.

00:29:48.060 He taped it in his car, you know, inside his vehicle.

00:29:51.060 And, and that was amazing.

00:29:52.520 I thought like, oh, well, I like those lyrics now, but I mean, I don't like the lyrics, but

00:29:57.040 I like the beat a lot.

00:29:58.080 So I think that, um, the rock is the best of Prince, uh, and Michael Jackson, uh, my number

00:30:04.240 one and two.

00:30:05.620 Um, I don't know, Michael Jackson, 93.

00:30:07.520 I think that was those two minutes that it was silence where he was putting his glasses

00:30:12.680 like this, you know, you know, they miss a lot of opportunities at these shows.

00:30:17.500 I'll give two examples.

00:30:19.060 First of all, I think they missed a huge opportunity.

00:30:21.180 This was the president's comment.

00:30:23.160 It's the 250th anniversary of America.

00:30:25.380 Why not have an American show?

00:30:28.740 So I think that's where the TPUSA show was, was very helpful.

00:30:32.060 And then again, I'm not saying Bad Bunny isn't American.

00:30:36.080 Obviously he's American and Puerto Rico is part of America, but that wasn't the theme.

00:30:39.260 And at the end he said, God bless America.

00:30:40.860 And I thought, oh, that's great.

00:30:42.060 But what he meant was every other country plus the United States and Canada.

00:30:47.100 Yeah.

00:30:47.580 Like, can't we have a moment?

00:30:49.020 Football is so American.

00:30:51.020 Right.

00:30:51.700 And then the other thing was, it's not like, I mean, I think Jay-Z is, is doing a poor job,

00:30:58.480 but it's not like they haven't messed up before.

00:31:00.400 However, 10 years ago, when they also had the Super Bowl in San Francisco, it was the

00:31:07.980 50th Super Bowl and people thought it was going to be a big deal for the Super Bowl.

00:31:12.400 And instead of doing a show with a local band, like there are so many great San Francisco

00:31:19.760 Bay Area bands.

00:31:20.800 I mean, I can name five offhand from the 60s to today that are just so good, would have

00:31:25.120 done an amazing job.

00:31:26.240 And, you know, I mean, Grateful Dead, maybe Jefferson Airplane or Starship or whatever

00:31:31.360 they became, Soundgarden, Green Day.

00:31:33.960 I mean, you could just name, political or not, you just name a bunch of San Francisco

00:31:37.500 bands.

00:31:39.000 And instead they went for Coldplay.

00:31:41.220 I like Coldplay.

00:31:42.460 I thought they actually did a great job in the show.

00:31:44.440 And I still remember their performance, which is more than I can say for a lot of the shows.

00:31:47.980 But it was just odd.

00:31:50.800 I mean, why choose a British band for this American sport?

00:31:54.800 And I think we have to remember that so much of this is just about the marketing strategy

00:31:59.460 of the NFL.

00:32:00.500 They realize the growth opportunity is in a Spanish speaking audience.

00:32:04.900 They realize that it's overseas.

00:32:07.100 This wasn't really aimed at the core audience.

00:32:09.880 They're aiming at people who never watch football and only tune in for the Super Bowl.

00:32:13.480 And so they're trying to choose artists who are better known outside of the Bay Area,

00:32:19.820 outside of the United States.

00:32:20.840 They want to try to expand the audience.

00:32:23.860 And that's what this was about.

00:32:24.880 It was basically a marketing decision.

00:32:26.680 It was about money.

00:32:28.200 And we're all sitting here and arguing about it.

00:32:30.120 And I think all of the views are important to express.

00:32:32.880 But we also have to look behind the curtain a little bit.

00:32:36.400 That's what this was about.

00:32:37.560 I think that they're trying to expand the audience to more women, the Super Bowl.

00:32:41.520 I think that it appeals a lot to that, for the family.

00:32:45.960 I think maybe in their mind, Goodell, Roger Goodell, thinks that by doing that,

00:32:50.480 he's inviting more women into it.

00:32:52.660 I don't know.

00:32:53.160 I think it's more designed for that kind of a...

00:32:56.800 I can't speak for my wife, but I think what she likes about the Super Bowl are the men.

00:33:02.700 That's what I like about it.

00:33:04.560 I told you so, yeah.

00:33:06.580 Tight pants.

00:33:08.060 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:33:09.020 We don't have to go into it, but I think that's the appeal.

00:33:11.960 We could.

00:33:14.020 We totally could.

00:33:15.780 But, I mean, they wanted to cater to a foreign audience.

00:33:20.680 They could have brought, like, somebody, like, better looking.

00:33:25.700 I don't know.

00:33:26.540 I don't find that funny, good looking or anything or his music.

00:33:30.520 But there's other acts they could have brought in.

00:33:34.140 But maybe JC wanted, because he's popular right now, that's why he wanted to bring him in.

00:33:40.160 I understand.

00:33:40.860 I mean, what a missed opportunity for Ricky Martin to sing La Vida Loca.

00:33:49.580 Everybody would have sang along with that one.

00:33:52.340 So, yeah, it has to be songs that people know.

00:33:55.400 So you can sing along, right?

00:33:56.920 Not the ones that you don't know, you know?

00:33:59.340 I have to run.

00:34:00.580 I've got a work meeting.

00:34:02.080 And I'll take my coffee with me, and I'll think of you guys.

00:34:04.460 But thank you again for the opportunity.

00:34:05.240 Thanks, Joel.

00:34:06.400 We'll see you soon.

00:34:07.680 Thank you.

00:34:08.440 Thank you.

00:34:10.600 Okay.

00:34:11.240 I am totally done with the bunny.

00:34:15.520 That rabbit can just hop on out of here. 1.00

00:34:17.940 I don't want to even hear about him.

00:34:19.720 I'm, like, so jaded from the NFL.

00:34:22.060 So my final word on it is the NFL has shown me to be anti-American.

00:34:28.040 They don't care what America thinks or feels, and I wouldn't spend my money or time on any

00:34:34.880 of it.

00:34:35.760 Thank you for your attention to this matter.

00:34:38.720 Okay.

00:34:39.100 So I know there's more news out there.

00:34:40.640 I mean, I think there's things happening in Iran and all that crazy stuff. 1.00

00:34:45.640 So we have...

00:34:46.200 What do you want to talk about?

00:34:47.060 Yeah.

00:34:47.160 We have...

00:34:48.520 I'm sorry, Joel left, because Mark...

00:34:51.800 We were going to talk about Mark Zuckerberg fleeing California.

00:34:55.820 And it's not completely certain that he is leaving California for certain...

00:35:01.220 But an article in the Washington...

00:35:04.540 Sorry, the Washington Street Journal...

00:35:09.220 Wall Street Journal, sorry.

00:35:11.380 I was thinking Washington Post and all the layoffs.

00:35:15.020 Anyways, my brain.

00:35:17.160 The Wall Street Journal talked about Mark Zuckerberg buying a home in South Florida.

00:35:25.840 And what's interesting is that there is this possibility of...

00:35:30.560 I don't know if you guys are aware.

00:35:32.600 I live here.

00:35:33.620 It's a big deal of there being a billionaire's tax being passed here.

00:35:38.340 It still hasn't passed.

00:35:39.980 They're wanting to put it for elections.

00:35:43.000 And basically, Cerno commented on Zuckerberg leaving, perhaps, California.

00:35:51.640 He said, and this is from Cerno, so bear with me. 0.91

00:35:56.980 Scum who funded the 2020 stolen election and spent billions of dollars on the far left-wing causes 0.66

00:36:04.680 is now fleeing California to avoid a wealth tax. 0.97

00:36:09.400 There are truly the lowest life forms.

00:36:12.200 Well, they are.

00:36:14.360 Yeah, they are. 1.00

00:36:15.340 And you'd be stupid to be a billionaire and stay in California. 1.00

00:36:19.800 I mean, you're not a billionaire because you're stupid. 1.00

00:36:22.660 So, you know, they're all happy and Joe slappy when it's like working in their favor. 1.00

00:36:28.220 They were paying high taxes.

00:36:29.520 But now it's like the absurdity of it all.

00:36:32.820 I mean, you know, Elon left and then I think the more liberal companies were like, no, we're

00:36:38.180 going to hold tight.

00:36:38.960 We're going to stay here.

00:36:40.500 And, you know, their egos were Picassos and not potatoes like they should have been. 1.00

00:36:46.000 And now they're like, oh, shit, like we're going to be crushed. 1.00

00:36:49.680 We can't possibly do business here. 0.99

00:36:51.480 So, yeah, they're going to go to the free state of Florida and they're going to make a

00:36:55.940 shit ton more money and they're going to just benefit from that. 0.53

00:37:00.860 So, California is a very big sinking ship. 0.82

00:37:06.140 And unfortunately, they have a governor who's probably going to be their candidate for president.

00:37:12.360 And people better wake up because if Scott always said test small, I mean, California

00:37:17.020 is big, but you're testing small in California for what he could do for this country.

00:37:23.020 You know, it'll go fast.

00:37:25.640 You see how fast that travels.

00:37:28.200 I wanted to add the Chamath, your favorite, everybody's favorite from an all in pod, actually

00:37:35.340 a billionaire himself from California.

00:37:38.520 He actually commented on the same thing as Sereno did.

00:37:41.940 But he added that, you know, California was OK.

00:37:45.880 They were paying all these billionaires they had.

00:37:48.320 They were paying taxes, but the loss of the tax revenue was totally available.

00:37:56.460 But it's now gone forever.

00:37:58.720 Like Jason, as we know from the all in, moved to Austin.

00:38:05.000 And maybe you didn't know that.

00:38:07.580 I shouldn't say that where he lives.

00:38:09.220 All because of, you know, the way the situation, as Erica points out.

00:38:14.360 But one of the things that Chamath points out is that all because Gavin Newsom stood motionless

00:38:21.960 against this bill, that it comes only from a small union, a very socialist union, not something

00:38:31.140 that is 80-20.

00:38:33.880 He could have potentially not even the Democrats are backing it.

00:38:37.620 And yet they're going to lose like so much revenue from those income taxes that they could have taken

00:38:48.480 and the taxes from the companies.

00:38:50.700 Because if you think that Zuckerberg's moved to Florida and keep Meta in Menlo Park, California,

00:39:01.800 most likely that will go next.

00:39:04.820 And that is also a high tax.

00:39:07.580 All the people that work there are taxed.

00:39:09.640 Everything is taxed.

00:39:11.280 So, again, Gavin Newsom made that choice.

00:39:17.520 He decided.

00:39:19.340 I think that, you know, the overall result here is that California is not safe for business, right?

00:39:27.680 I mean, that's what's happening.

00:39:29.380 California is being seen as not safe to do business.

00:39:33.380 Just like Scott called China a long time ago, right?

00:39:37.020 When he started going after China and he became, everybody started fleeing China.

00:39:42.460 Nobody's building anything in China, right? 0.96

00:39:44.100 So the same thing is happening in, I call it China-fornia. 0.93

00:39:47.220 You know, I call it.

00:39:48.240 It feels like.

00:39:50.140 Yeah.

00:39:50.480 It feels like a state of China in many ways.

00:39:54.800 And, you know, when I flew there, you know, for Scott's funeral, the Uber driver only spoke Mandarin.

00:40:03.480 And it was, you know, on the way back, too.

00:40:06.480 So it was great to travel to another country like that, you know, China-fornia.

00:40:12.460 So I think that until, like Scott said it, the dollars are going to call it, right?

00:40:18.800 All the dollars leaving, that's what's going to make things.

00:40:22.320 But I think, Erica, I agree with you.

00:40:24.420 I think it's going to get just worse and worse and worse in California.

00:40:27.660 It has to.

00:40:28.580 I mean, you're taking all the money out.

00:40:30.020 You're taking jobs.

00:40:30.920 You're taking money.

00:40:31.700 You're taking the people that pay the highest taxes are leaving.

00:40:34.980 So, well, we'll see how that shakes up.

00:40:37.360 I, you know, what else is there to say but follow the money and it's all leaving California.

00:40:44.780 Andy brought up a good point.

00:40:46.540 He always, he said that Scott would always say that Democrats don't understand motivation and incentives.

00:40:55.480 Human motivation is true.

00:40:57.420 They don't.

00:40:58.280 Um, and, you know, it's crazy that, um, that Zuckerberg and some other, you know, um, billionaires, um, for some reason I hear an echo.

00:41:15.560 Ignore it.

00:41:16.880 I don't know if Sergio's playing me.

00:41:19.120 But anyways, so, um, the, the, but the main thing is that these, like, I didn't, like, lobby or support these politicians.

00:41:31.640 Zuckerberg did.

00:41:32.760 And now he's moving to Florida, finding a new home.

00:41:36.080 And it's like, really?

00:41:38.240 And this is why Cerno is saying what he's saying.

00:41:41.320 But anyways, let's go forward with Iran. 0.92

00:41:44.200 Um, and I think Sergio had news on that.

00:41:48.180 Um, the U.S.-Iran nuclear diplomacy intensifies as Tehran's security chief arrives in Oman.

00:41:56.640 Or Oman.

00:41:58.400 Uh, I don't, sorry.

00:42:01.440 A top Iranian security.

00:42:03.580 A top Iranian security official has traveled to Oman for talks with U.S. mediators on the nuclear deal.

00:42:11.800 Amid continued back and forth between Washington and Tehran.

00:42:15.460 This diplomatic push is sparking debate online about whether a breakthrough or escalation could be imminent.

00:42:21.660 So, the last I've heard from Iran is, uh, their foreign, um, dignitary or minister or evil person, um, said that they're gonna keep doing nuclear testing.

00:42:34.460 And nuclear is gonna stay in Iran.

00:42:38.280 Um, and so, that's a problem.

00:42:42.400 So, I don't know if you have any thoughts on that, Sergio or Erika.

00:42:46.120 I think it's a great opportunity for, for Trump to show what happens when, uh, people misbehave.

00:42:53.900 And, and don't, uh, and don't, uh, don't, don't, don't understand that they have already been obliterated.

00:43:00.860 And I think that's what he's doing right now.

00:43:02.700 Uh, he's proving, okay, you think that you're still there.

00:43:05.640 We're gonna, we're gonna fix this.

00:43:08.320 And, uh, the, the, uh, Oman has a prediction that there will be an attack, right?

00:43:15.680 It's always, you know, and he predicted Gulf War I, right? 0.88

00:43:19.280 So, in college and, and, and I, I think that that's gonna happen, but the, what I don't think is gonna happen, it's not gonna be a long war.

00:43:28.040 I don't think it's gonna be a long war, extended war.

00:43:30.680 I think it's gonna be just a precision attack.

00:43:33.500 Um, just the way you have to handle weeds growing in the back of your yard, you just have to destroy them and, and, and keep going with your life.

00:43:43.400 So, I think that's what's going on right now.

00:43:44.840 He's deploying all the, um, uh, herbicide everywhere to, to make sure there is a nice lawn everywhere, nice property.

00:43:55.660 And he's a, he's a, a, a, a person that cares about the community and the whole war is the community now.

00:44:02.560 So, he's gonna make it clean.

00:44:04.500 Well, I saw some, um, someone, I won't name names, said, uh, Iran needs to keep its nukes.

00:44:11.940 So, I, I don't, you know, the locals people, some of them, um, are local.

00:44:17.980 Um, and, uh, the other thing that you were gonna say is that, um, Owen had said that there'd be attack.

00:44:25.100 Well, perhaps America agrees because they've warned to have everybody leave Iran. 1.00

00:44:31.840 Any Americans that are there should leave it. 1.00

00:44:34.200 But, but this often happens anyways, just because there's protests, there's instability.

00:44:40.540 Um, not necessarily there's going to be a precision attack, but, you know, Owen might be correct.

00:44:48.460 I don't know.

00:44:49.620 Um, I don't know what will transpire.

00:44:52.440 Um, but definitely having Iran have nuclear weapons is not, it's not acceptable.

00:45:02.820 It's not acceptable.

00:45:04.060 It's suboptimal.

00:45:06.320 All right.

00:45:07.620 And then the other stories is the Mandani.

00:45:12.500 Uh, why can I pronounce his name today?

00:45:14.900 I don't know, but you're like my best friend, Mindy.

00:45:17.160 She gets the words almost right.

00:45:19.240 It's so endearing.

00:45:20.300 I love it.

00:45:21.720 Mandami.

00:45:23.280 No, I think it's misspelled here or something. 0.99

00:45:26.700 Mandami, um, is turning New York into a corpse wasteland of trash and corpses. 0.88

00:45:34.380 Um, he talked about the warmth of communism, wasn't it? 0.97

00:45:40.620 Or something.

00:45:41.440 So warm.

00:45:43.020 The warmth of having dead bodies everywhere.

00:45:47.020 Um, so about, this is about 18, 16 homeless people have died in the streets of New York

00:45:55.260 City, um, because he does not want to bring them in.

00:46:00.060 He doesn't want to force, um, certain people that are, um, how would you say homeless?

00:46:07.220 Homeless, um, well, unhoused people. 1.00

00:46:10.840 Homeless.

00:46:11.380 They would, yeah.

00:46:13.000 I was just trying to bring in the democratic words, which is unhoused or whatever.

00:46:17.700 They don't want to bring them in.

00:46:19.580 There's a $12 billion budget for immigrants, but I don't know what happened to the American

00:46:30.920 unhoused budget.

00:46:33.660 Um, but basically there's a huge uproar.

00:46:37.740 Um, I don't know if you've been looking at X where people are filming, uh, there's trash

00:46:43.540 pickup.

00:46:44.340 It hasn't come in.

00:46:46.080 There's a bunch of, I would like to just say as your, your New York neighbor to the

00:46:52.980 New York where I used to live, work, play.

00:46:57.120 I used to be in the city all the time.

00:46:59.620 You guys all the time.

00:47:01.040 Once to Blasio got in there and we got a sampling of what you would call communism.

00:47:06.860 When I tell you within six weeks, the city started going to hell in a handbasket.

00:47:12.200 It was, it was visually obvious.

00:47:15.420 Now, um, I think what we have to be careful about is it's not like we're, we're wrapping

00:47:22.320 Islamism up in communism. 0.92

00:47:24.920 So I just want you to remember that, you know, we keep saying communism with Mondami, but it's 0.94

00:47:31.160 Islamism.

00:47:32.060 So we're, we have, and I'm only saying that because I'm going to say radical also, because

00:47:38.600 it's coming.

00:47:39.360 So I think that the word communism is using to distract us, um, you know, people keep

00:47:46.720 pushing communism, communism, but keep your eye on it and watch, you know, watch and be

00:47:53.060 careful because it's going to turn into something bigger.

00:47:55.760 I'm not even like predicting.

00:47:57.360 I just know, like, I, I see what's been happening in New York for the last 15 years, 20 years,

00:48:04.400 and the way it's changing and people are also fleeing New York, people who I'm going to put

00:48:10.780 it this way.

00:48:11.340 Americans are fleeing New York and a lot of, uh, radical countries are buying New York and

00:48:20.600 they're occupying New York.

00:48:22.000 And, um, um, there's nothing more pleasing to radicals than to tear down our most prominent

00:48:33.700 American city, which is like, it's like capturing the prize is, you know, basically this quiet

00:48:41.100 overthrow of New York.

00:48:42.300 So keep your eye on that, that there's no reason that that city should be looking the

00:48:48.540 way it is or anything.

00:48:50.160 Um, Giuliani, when he was mayor, I'm, I'm so sad for people that will never understand

00:48:56.880 what New York was.

00:48:58.300 I saw it in the seventies when it was horrendous.

00:49:02.380 I mean, people were getting necklaces ripped off their neck, just on the street.

00:49:05.740 The, it, it was bad.

00:49:07.840 Okay.

00:49:08.560 By the time Giuliani came in, I had never felt so safe in that city in my entire life, walking

00:49:15.520 around doing anything.

00:49:16.740 It was beautiful.

00:49:17.940 It was immaculate.

00:49:18.940 There was no gum on the sidewalks.

00:49:20.600 There were no broken windows.

00:49:22.340 Famously, um, Stella's meowing her face off. 0.85

00:49:26.300 If you hear that, she's my cat with dementia.

00:49:28.280 Yeah.

00:49:29.360 Sorry.

00:49:29.720 Um, so anyway, so I'm just worried because de Blasio was like the first step in this

00:49:35.780 transition and, um, there's deeper forces at play here.

00:49:40.600 If you can imagine more than communism.

00:49:43.080 So just pay attention.

00:49:45.500 Don't fall for it.

00:49:46.840 Okay.

00:49:47.140 You guys, um, you, you know, if you're doing business or living in New York right now, you

00:49:51.780 have to get out, you have to get out.

00:49:53.840 Um, but don't come to New Jersey with the same radical ideas.

00:49:57.300 Hey, uh, Marcela, so people is dying already, right?

00:50:00.900 You're saying that six people died, uh, no, no, like 18, 18.

00:50:05.760 So that means that, uh, yeah, socialism is delivering already on what they always do.

00:50:11.260 Right.

00:50:11.580 So these are the first, uh, 18 death, uh, of, uh, the Mundani socialism regime, right?

00:50:17.960 That is going to happen.

00:50:19.320 Oh, what a beautiful cat.

00:50:20.720 And Erica, Stella's anti-Islamist.

00:50:27.400 So, I mean, I was just looking like it, Andy, and people in the chat, YouTube and locals,

00:50:32.780 like if you live in New York, been there, been through it, I mean, let the chat know it's

00:50:38.820 a, it's not even recognizable anymore.

00:50:41.540 It's so sad.

00:50:42.740 Andy said, Oh, the dementia cat.

00:50:44.360 This is her.

00:50:45.600 This is Stella. 0.92

00:50:46.840 She could rip my face off at any minute. 1.00

00:50:48.500 Oh, no, she's sassy. 1.00

00:50:52.320 Okay.

00:50:52.640 So that's New York.

00:50:54.020 Be careful.

00:50:55.160 Trump is threatening to block opening the U S Canada bridge.

00:51:00.340 Oh no.

00:51:01.920 So BJ and, uh, Mike bird can't walk through that bridge anymore.

00:51:08.240 Trump might block, um, from opening it until Canada compensates the U S.

00:51:16.040 once half ownership of the bridge.

00:51:19.780 Uh, and what he was quoted saying is I will now, I will not allow this bridge to open until

00:51:26.780 the United States is fully compensated for everything we have given them.

00:51:32.420 Funded by Canada owned by both allegedly.

00:51:35.620 Um, so he cites the dairy tariffs in Canada, China deal as the reason why he is unwilling

00:51:45.020 to, uh, have the U S Canada bridge, um, come.

00:51:51.080 Um, but somebody says Mike will get a special pass.

00:51:55.580 He'll just like jump over the water or something.

00:51:57.820 Um, so, um, I don't know.

00:52:01.760 It's funny.

00:52:02.500 Um, the, then Trump is also causing a little bit of, uh, climate hoax, uh, hoax, uh, or

00:52:11.600 climate, climate lovers, a little bit running scared because he wants to repeal the landmark

00:52:19.360 climate, um, act.

00:52:22.220 Um, he wants to reverse legal determination that greenhouses threaten public health.

00:52:28.560 Um, Trump would be repealing the 2009 endangerment finding and, and basis of vehicle emission

00:52:37.500 rules.

00:52:38.380 And EPA's Lee Selden has indicated that this amount to the largest act of deregulation in

00:52:46.740 the history of the United States.

00:52:49.060 Um, so it doesn't hit power plants yet, but the final rule is this week.

00:52:56.740 And basically he's repealing all of the, um, constraints on industry.

00:53:02.840 Um, and I'm, I'm for it.

00:53:06.400 Uh, I don't know what people in the chat think or what Sergio.

00:53:10.260 I love it.

00:53:10.740 Let us, let us go.

00:53:12.800 You're not a climate lover.

00:53:14.560 Um, I love, I love the environment and I love the planet I'm living on.

00:53:21.020 Um, but you know, I'm also seeing, you know, flying to San Francisco.

00:53:26.340 Oh, like when we got over toward California, I took pictures from the window of these fricking

00:53:32.940 wind turbines, these beautiful rolling Hills, green, lush, gorgeous.

00:53:38.000 And then I see all these little death mills everywhere.

00:53:41.460 Somebody just posted something.

00:53:43.740 Um, I forget where it was, but Oh, what, where was it in Texas?

00:53:47.780 I mean, acres and acres and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles of

00:53:52.780 solar panels, just in a big, and I'm like, where are you disposing of the solar panels?

00:53:58.760 Like, you know, you, you're going to get a big hailstorm.

00:54:01.440 They're going to break.

00:54:02.420 Now what you've got acreage of these things.

00:54:05.360 What are you doing with them?

00:54:06.480 One turbine, you guys, if you've never seen a wind turbine up close, like the ones are putting

00:54:11.800 off the Jersey shore, they are so fricking massive.

00:54:16.600 I can't even explain to you because they're so far away, but if you've gotten a boat and

00:54:20.980 you've got up near one, they're so massive.

00:54:24.000 Like the one turbine is like, it's like a whole entire, I don't even know what it is.

00:54:29.820 Like, I want to say it's a quarter mile.

00:54:32.140 I mean, it might be stretched out.

00:54:33.840 It might be, um, and they're breaking and they, they're taking up more, you know, they're,

00:54:40.420 they're making more pollution.

00:54:41.640 They're not putting out energy.

00:54:43.420 So yes, to answer your question, I love the environment, but let our free flags fly.

00:54:48.860 And they've been killing whales, right?

00:54:50.400 The whales have been, uh, because of it.

00:54:53.720 And they, and they're killing a lot of eagles and birds and, and it's not helping at all.

00:54:58.780 So the best thing is to be just use our coal and, um, clean, beautiful coal, right.

00:55:06.760 And, uh, nuclear, and that's going to give us a lot of power.

00:55:11.280 Gen four nuclear, clean coal.

00:55:14.080 Listen, these are the things that have been working and the countries that we're buying

00:55:19.160 all this crap from are using coal.

00:55:22.120 They're not using what they're selling us. 0.98

00:55:24.000 You know, we're only buying it because we were a fed a hoax, which we now know.

00:55:29.700 And now Bill Gates suddenly is like, you know, no, no, no, no.

00:55:32.580 We can, it's not a problem.

00:55:33.820 Um, or it's about the money, like the Paris accords, which was so sickening that we were

00:55:40.760 paying 300 times more than anyone.

00:55:46.120 And China, like one of the most giant polluters, wasn't even paying anything.

00:55:52.580 Wait, so one is in the chat.

00:55:54.200 We have been the most unfavored nation, right?

00:55:58.920 We have been unfavored nation for a long time.

00:56:01.820 And, uh, now all that has been reversed and we're taking that place of, uh, that we deserve

00:56:06.140 that America deserves.

00:56:07.480 You know, when I came here in 1983, as a little kid and I fell in love with here, this place,

00:56:12.560 this is what is becoming again.

00:56:14.200 And I feel, I feel that vibe.

00:56:15.640 I feel that strength.

00:56:16.760 Um, so, uh, it's coming.

00:56:18.800 I also want to say that the wind turbines being put in our ocean, uh, it's a different

00:56:26.480 country doing it.

00:56:27.580 We leased our ocean to another country.

00:56:33.380 So make it make sense.

00:56:35.540 It doesn't, we are so backwards where we, we were not America first.

00:56:39.880 A lot of this happened behind everybody's backs.

00:56:42.420 Nobody realizes it's happening.

00:56:44.760 Um, and yes, Michael Schellenberg, um, there's, I can.

00:56:48.800 Name a whole bunch of people who are really, um, huge on the platform of bringing awareness

00:56:55.500 to these turbines and what's happening with the whales.

00:56:58.500 So, you know, I, I'm on that bandwagon.

00:57:01.440 Scott has amplified, you know, things that I wrote about it, documentaries about it, but

00:57:06.860 you know, I, I living, I've lived on the Jersey shore my whole life.

00:57:10.240 I never saw a dead whale wash up on the beach.

00:57:12.920 I mean, you'd hear about it once in a while, but we've had over a hundred in the last few

00:57:18.620 years and they're because of the turbines being mapped out and installed.

00:57:23.660 It's pretty sad.

00:57:24.360 So who cares about the environment?

00:57:26.280 I do.

00:57:27.700 The environmentalists?

00:57:28.900 Not so much.

00:57:29.660 Not so much.

00:57:30.240 So much.

00:57:31.460 The, the windmills, uh, in Palm Springs near me and, um, they're killing all these birds.

00:57:37.640 Uh, like some are, um, eagles and, um, you know, hawks and all that.

00:57:44.160 Um, yeah. 0.97

00:57:45.040 But I don't know if I want to end on this story, but, um, it's called downward bitch. 1.00

00:57:51.400 Uh, I don't know. 0.95

00:57:53.360 Sounds perfect.

00:57:54.000 It's irate yoga wokes, the man complicit instructors condemn ice.

00:57:59.920 So they, um, there was a video of them.

00:58:04.540 Um, so I don't know if some of you have watched the video of the yoga karens.

00:58:09.060 Um, that's what I call them.

00:58:10.540 And so there's like, um, I don't know, yoga works or work.

00:58:15.040 Oh, core power.

00:58:16.320 Core power.

00:58:16.920 Oh, yeah.

00:58:18.920 Okay.

00:58:19.480 Core power.

00:58:20.240 I don't go to it, so I don't know.

00:58:22.000 Um, so they're standing in front of like the front desk of core power and they're with

00:58:28.520 their, uh, yoga mats all, uh, you know, by their chest and they're going like this.

00:58:36.540 And then they're like, you're complicit with ice because allegedly, um, somebody at core

00:58:43.820 power took down a poster that was condemning ice.

00:58:47.620 And because they serve everybody, they, they have to take it down, but, um, the Karens 1.00

00:58:54.140 were irate and yelling at the other women that were on the front desk about how they were

00:59:04.140 being silent and they needed to be loud and proud and all sorts of stuff.

00:59:11.140 Oh my gosh.

00:59:13.500 Well, there's nothing much more to say about that because we're at the top of the hour,

00:59:17.660 but irate yoga sounds like something we would do in New Jersey happily.

00:59:21.980 Um, just add in some goats and a, and a sub and we're ready to go.

00:59:26.880 Um, you guys, thank you so much.

00:59:30.660 Listen, Owen Gregorian has posted all of his stories on his account.

00:59:36.480 So, um, definitely check those out.

00:59:39.700 Okay.

00:59:40.120 They're great, great and different news stories.

00:59:43.060 And tomorrow, guess who's coming on?

00:59:47.340 It's Akira the Don.

00:59:49.660 Nice.

00:59:50.140 Yay.

00:59:51.100 So Akira will be here tomorrow with us.

00:59:53.920 Make sure, um, you know what?

00:59:55.760 Maybe Shelly can post a, uh, post on locals and on X and let us know what you want us

01:00:02.140 to ask Akira.

01:00:03.300 We have them for the hour.

01:00:04.660 She did.

01:00:05.420 She did on Monday.

01:00:07.380 I had them.

01:00:07.860 Oh, that's right.

01:00:08.500 That's right.

01:00:09.380 So I had a local meetup yesterday and it was great.

01:00:12.300 Uh, we're going to have another one.

01:00:13.620 Tell us.

01:00:14.740 Uh, it was fantastic.

01:00:15.940 It was great feedback.

01:00:17.180 Um, and, uh, they, some of them didn't know who Akira was.

01:00:20.780 So I'm going to ask everybody to like maybe post their favorite Akira song.

01:00:26.280 All right.

01:00:26.940 Let's hype them up.

01:00:28.040 Yeah.

01:00:28.700 And, uh, and, and post the videos and that way everybody gets, you know, excited for

01:00:34.040 tomorrow.

01:00:34.640 We'll have an Akira dance party tomorrow morning, you guys.

01:00:38.380 So we'll see you then.

01:00:39.780 Let's have a closing sip and listen, be useful today.

01:00:43.420 You guys, you're amazing.

01:00:45.420 We miss Scott so much.

01:00:46.980 I'm listening to his videos all the time.

01:00:50.160 Um, I encourage you to do the same.

01:00:52.100 Shelly is our queen, you know, doing this for us every day and we'll see you tomorrow

01:00:57.840 with Akira, the Don.

01:00:59.600 Hey guys, be useful to Scott.

01:01:01.660 Be useful.

01:01:02.320 Scott.

01:01:02.720 Scott.

01:01:03.020 You guys.

01:01:03.660 You.

01:01:04.500 You.

01:01:04.540 You.

01:01:08.280 You.

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - February 10, 2026

Episode 3091 - The Scott Adams School 02⧸10⧸26

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